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Pot Pourri

Articles about George Frideric Handel or 18th-Century music in general

• Rhetoric and Baroque Opera Seria -- by Eric T. Lam
• The "Case" of George Frideric Handel -- by William A. Frosch, M.D.
• "Why we love Handel" -- Interviews by Charlotte Higgins; February 8, 2002; The Guardian

Handel Memorabilia

If you have pictures of memorabilia you'd like to submit (electronic or photographs), please contact info@gfhandel.org. If you would like to be identified as the contributor (or remain anonymous), please make note of this.

• Trading Cards
  • Garbaty Tobacco Card
  • Ogdens tobacco card (1901)
  • Ogdens tobacco card (1902)
  • Wills tobacco card (1912)
  • Chocolate Trade Card
  • A.G. Cousis & Co. Tobacco Card (1905)
  • "Famous Minors" Cigarette Card (1936)
  • Reward Card
• Medals / Medallions / Coins
  • 1857 Crystal Palace Handel Festival Medal
  • 1859 Crystal Palace Centenary Commemoration Medal
  • Bronze Medallion (1859)
  • Bicentenary medal (1959)
  • 20 DM DDR coin (1984)
• Busts
  • Handel bust
  • Copy of Handel bust
  • Handel bust -- by W.H. Goss
  • Bust
  • Bust by Petr Novák (2002)
  • Marble bust
  • Pearlware bust (circa 1790)
  • Bronze Handel bust
  • Parian porcelain bust (19th century)
  • Another Parian porcelain bust (19th century)
  • Handel bust (1969)
  • Resin bust (1950s)
  • Handel bust after Roubillac
  • Porcelain (?) bust
  • Handel bust (contributed by Richard Soar)
  • Handel bust (contributed by Richard Soar)
• Portraits
  • Handel photogravure miniature
  • Handel photogravure (1913)
  • Copper engraving
  • Vintage engraving
  • Houbraken portrait
  • Reproduction of engraving by Sickling
  • London News portrait (1859)
  • Handel portrait (19th century?; contributed by Richard Soar)
• Statues
  • Standing Handel Statue
  • Halle Handel StatueStatue of Handel in Paris Opera HouseEngraving of Vauxhall Gardens Statue
  • Vauxhall Gardens Statue -- Handel as Apollo (replica)
• Postcards / Envelopes

• 1904
• pre-1910
• pre-1915
• 1915
• 1998 (Czech Handel Society)
• Postcard
• Postcard
• Postcard
• Postcard
• Carte de Visite
• Benhams Gold 500 - Millennium Countdown (1999)

Postage Stamps

• 1935: German Bundespost
• 1952: DDR: Handel, Albert Lortzing, Carl Maria von Weber
• 1959:
  • German Bundespost
  • Romanian post
  • DDR First Day Cover
• 1985:
  • UK First Day Cover of Handel and Water Music
  • UK First Day Cover
  • Turks & Caicos
  • German Bundespost
    • First Day Cover #1
    • First Day Cover #2
    • Stamp on Maxicard
  • DDR: JS Bach, Handel, and Schütz
    • Stamp on Maxicard
  • Ireland: Handel, JS Bach, and D. Scarlatti
  • Guine Bissau
  • Cyprus
  • India
• 1998: Romanian post
• ?: Monaco
• Music Scores / Printed Editions
  • Messiah (1773)
  • Six overtures (1743)
  • XXIV overtures (1739)
  • Frontispiece to a printed edition of Alexander's Feast
• Tokens
  • Token (1791)
  • Token (c. 1795)
• Bookplates
  • 1833
  • 1849
• Handel Plate
• World Columbian Exposition Ticket (Chicago, 1893) with Handel bust
• "Handel's River Concert for George I"
• Handel Playing Card
• In Memory of Handel -- The London Journal (1859)
• Handel Christmas ornament
• Coalport plaque
• Handel Instructing a Pupil (1882)
• Young Handel's first Efforts (1893) -- by Margaret Dicksee
• "The Charming Brute" (1754)
• Cigar band
• Royal Doulton Mug
• Hallelujah Handel T-shirt
• Note paper
• Handel on paper napkin
• Eraser
• Handel, King of Music
• Flat Figure
• Handel wrist watch
• Portrait of Handel's father

More Handel, Please !!

Can't get enough of Handel? Neither can I! But alas, the adopted British Orpheus wrote no more... Here's a list of composers for your perusal who musically resemble "Il caro Sassone" at different stages of his musical development. These individuals either influenced Handel's compositional style or were influenced themselves by him :

• Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) - Rome, Munich, Paris, Hanover
• Henry Purcell (1659-95) - London
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) - Naples, Rome
• Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) - Venice, Mantua, Rome, Vienna
• Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739) - Hamburg
• William Babell (1690-1723) - London
• Johan Helmich Roman, "The Swedish Handel" (1694-1758) - London, Stockholm
• William Boyce (1711-79) - London
• John Stanley (1712-86) - London
• John Christopher Smith, the Younger (1712-95) - London
• Capel Bond (1730-90) - Midlands, England
• Thomas Linley, the Younger (1756-78) - London

Special thanks! go to Tim Dickinson (TDWare) for creating ClassiCat for Windows and for his assistance in extracting the Handel composition data from this database program for its incorporation at this web site. To download and install your personal database version of the HWV catalog information included at this site, visit TDWare, home to ClassiCat for Windows. With your own personal copy of the Handel database, you can modify the database to your needs and relate Handel's oeuvres to your recording library. The Handel database from ClassiCat for Windows includes additional information not included at this web site (e.g., movements and scoring details -- when available).

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